Allied Irish Banks Plc Earnings News Conference

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A pedestrian shelters from the weather beneath an umbrella as she passes an Allied Irish Banks Plc (AIB) branch on Grafton Street in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Allied Irish Banks Plc, which cost taxpayers about 21 billion euros ($27 billion) to rescue, said its annual loss widened as a decline in bad loan losses failed to offset dwindling gains from buying back its own debt. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A pedestrian shelters from the weather beneath an umbrella as she passes an Allied Irish Banks Plc (AIB) branch on Grafton Street in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Allied Irish Banks Plc, which cost taxpayers about 21 billion euros ($27 billion) to rescue, said its annual loss widened as a decline in bad loan losses failed to offset dwindling gains from buying back its own debt. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Allied Irish Banks Plc Earnings News Conference

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A pedestrian walks on a sidewalk near a regional branch of an Allied Irish Banks Plc (AIB) bank near Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Allied Irish Banks Plc, which cost taxpayers about 21 billion euros ($27 billion) to rescue, said its annual loss widened as a decline in bad loan losses failed to offset dwindling gains from buying back its own debt. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A pedestrian walks on a sidewalk near a regional branch of an Allied Irish Banks Plc (AIB) bank near Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Allied Irish Banks Plc, which cost taxpayers about 21 billion euros ($27 billion) to rescue, said its annual loss widened as a decline in bad loan losses failed to offset dwindling gains from buying back its own debt. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images